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How to convert your lightly anchored Tensa4 to a fully freestanding
version (FS-mod).
Iden fy the standard parts of a Tensa4. Le" to right, top to bo%om:
Orange Screw anchor, 30cm Boomstake anchor, 4 ball loops with pins,
4sets of 3-struts and 4-struts, quick start guide, 2 guylines, 2 carabiners,
baseline (orange), ridgeline (black), and storage bag.
Your stand may have older feet than shown. It works just the same.
Set aside the Orange Screw, Boomstake, guylines, carabiners, and
ridgeline. These are not used with the FS-mod.
Next, iden fy the parts of the FS-mod kit
Please note that the #4
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sec ons and screwed in feet with the FS-mod kit are NOT
interchangable with pre-2025 Tensa4 tubes.
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Summary of Contents for Tensa Outdoor Tensa4
- Page 1 How to convert your lightly anchored Tensa4 to a fully freestanding version (FS-mod). Iden fy the standard parts of a Tensa4. Le" to right, top to bo%om: Orange Screw anchor, 30cm Boomstake anchor, 4 ball loops with pins, 4sets of 3-struts and 4-struts, quick start guide, 2 guylines, 2 carabiners, baseline (orange), ridgeline (black), and storage bag.
- Page 2 Now remove the #4 segments (one with the foot on it) from 2 of the 3- struts and replace them with the stub #4s. These will go on the foot end of the stand. Set aside the full #4s you removed with the other un- needed Tensa4 parts...
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- Page 4 Take the orange baseline and set it at approximately 5 to 5-1/2 feet long. You can use your height as a guide. Lay this out on the ground so it makes a level line (cross slope). Take the 4-struts and extend them and place the feet next to the loops in the baseline as shown in the photo.
- Page 7 Thread one ball-loop on each side of the stand as shown.
- Page 8 Now take the 2 shortend 3-struts and one of the FS-mod kit 4-struts (the ones without the outer feet) and extend them and lay them out as show. This is the foot end. Lay the center connec on tube on the baseline.
- Page 11 Using a ball-loop, thread the foot end as shown. Start by going through the end with no outer foot in the middle, then to one shortened 3-strut, and 8nally through the other shortened 3-strut. This order puts the ball toggle in the best loca on to suspend your hammock from it.
- Page 14 Lay out the head end poles as shown. Going clockwise from the top: Head support pole with the small standing loop in the adjustment webbing as the connec on point, 3-strut, ridgepole 4-strut (one without the outer foot), and 8nally the last 3-strut.
- Page 16 Star ng with the ridgepole, thread the ball loop through the ridgepole, 3-strut, head adjustment pole harness, and 8nally through the last 3- strut and loop the end over the toggle.
- Page 19 Again, this puts the toggle in the best posi on to loop your hammock suspension over it. Now connect the ridgepole center connector (the one with the tape at the middle (which you can safely remove if you want) to one of the ridgepole 4-struts.
- Page 22 Grab both halves of the ridgepole and pull the stand upright and connect them together. I suggest standing on the side where you can see the spring buon you are trying to engage. You can also use the Head Support Pole to 'pre-stand' up the head end of the assembly.
- Page 25 Once the ridgepole is connected, stand the Head Support Pole upright and then adjust the height of the head apex with the adjustment buckle. Your buckle may look di&erent, but func'ons the same way.
- Page 27 Finally, loop your hammock suspension over the ball/toggle over both the foot end (shown) and head end (not shown. This hammock is a 12 footer and needs a short suspension. For shorter hammocks you will need longer suspension. We HIGHLY recommend having the foot suspension longer than the head suspension (see next photo).
- Page 28 With the low point as shown you can safely sit reversed (head toward the foot end) as a chair. Set up on level ground. In this case the crest of a hill.
- Page 29 Set up on a signi7cant foot end down slope.
- Page 30 Two, the head apex probably needs to be adjusted to the extreme upper posi'on on the head support pole. The easiest way to store the Tensa4 with FS-mod is as shown above. When you take it down, leave all the ball-loops connected. Disconnect the struts so that the baseline (lower 4 struts) are all either 3-struts or 4-struts.
- Page 31 lay out the base assembly, then the foot and head assemblies and connect them without worrying about trying to connect a 3-strut to a 4- strut, or a shortened 3-strut to a 4-strut. You can also temporily store a stand and hammock by disconnec'ng the ridgepole in the middle and folding everthing into a column.
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